The International Journal of Research on Land-use Sustainabilityconsiders all manuscripts on the condition that they have been submitted only to that journal, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Contributions toInternational Journal of Research on Land-use Sustainabilityideally reports original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

Submitting an Article﻿Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English must have their manuscripts checked by a native English speaker prior to submission. Articles should be submitted by the author to whom acknowledgment of receipt and other correspondence will be addressed. Article must contain original work and must not be under consideration for publication by other journals.Manuscripts for consideration in the journal should be submitted electronically in word format to the editorial office (landusesustainability@gmail.com / sharif_a_mukul@yahoo.com). Contributors are free of charge.

Length and Format

Research articles of any length will be considered for publication. Authors should aim, however, to present their work as concisely as possible. Short articles may be submitted in the form of research communication.

Copyright

Accepted articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Author(s) are allowed to distribute and reproduce their work without consulting the publisher provided that, the source is acknowledged.

Decision to Publish

The editorial board and the managing editor(s) reserves the right to accept or reject manuscript submitted for publication.

﻿Manuscript Preparation

Typing

Articles must be submitted as a word (doc) file. Article should be typewritten with single spacing with a generic font (e.g. Times New Roman) and standard font size. All pages must be numbered, and a title page should be provided with the title of the paper, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the Author(s), and e-mail address of the corresponding author. Author(s) are also required to provide a short title of their article and 3 highlighting point from their research.

Title

The title of the manuscript should be concise and informative.

Abstract

The abstract should be informative and less than 300 words. Five keywords should be listed out at the end of abstract.

Text

The article text should ideally be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgments, References. Tables and figures should be embedded in the manuscript text with appropriate legends and credits (if applicable).

Reference

The author is responsible for verifying each reference against original article. Articles cited in the text will be referred to by the surname of the author(s) with year of publication in parenthesis.